Card Briefs: Smart Card Pay Phones Available at Tournament

The Byron Nelson golf tournament this week will be equipped with Northern Telecom's Millennium pay phones that accept smart cards.

Consumers will be able to purchase GTE Byron Nelson smart cards at the tournament to make telephone calls without using change or a credit card. The cards will come in $10 and $20 denominations.

From Thursday through Sunday, 40 pay phones that accept the cards with embedded computer chips, as well as coins and calling cards, will be installed at the tournament.

GTE is installing 25,000 smart phones in the United States.

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